Mårten
Falk is one of Sweden’s most internationally active
guitarists. He has played in USA, Canada, Japan, France,
Belgium, Spain, Ukraine, Chile, Peru, Argentine, Sweden
and Finland and he has also performed in radio in many different
countries. His three solo recordings on dB Productions label
have been met with fantastic reviews around the world.
Composers from Sweden, Italy, Chile, Japan and Canada have
dedicated their guitar pieces to him and he has given more
than 70 world premieres.
Mårten Falk was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1973
and started playing guitar at the age of 8. He has studied
guitar in Sweden with Christer Hellqvist and Gunnar Lif.
At the same time he also studied composition with Sven-David
Sandström. In 1996 Mårten Falk was admitted in
the class of Alberto Ponce in the Ecole Normale de Musique
in Paris, where he studied until 1999.
Mårten Falk has also taken part in several masterclasses
in England, Spain, France and Sweden with teachers such
as: Manuel Barrueco, José Tomás, David Starobin,
Roberto Aussel, David Tanenbaum, Eliot Fisk and Nigel North.
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TEACHING:
Mårten Falk teaches at Lilla Akademien http://www.lillaakademien.se/
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Falk is also teaching at the Salem Musikskola in Stockholm.
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Falk is also frequently asked to give masterclasses in Sweden
and abroad.
In July-August, the Swedish Guitar and Lute Society, where
Falk was president 2003-2007, organizes the festival and
course "Liten Gitarrakademi", located in the west
of Sweden. Mårten Falk usually teach at this venue.
This course is the oldest in the world and has had an impressing
number of stars over the years: Alirio Diaz, Carlos Barbosa-Lima,
Angelo Gilardino, Eugen Dumbois, Hubert Käppel, Sharon
Isbin, Roberto Aussel etc. etc. For more info: http://www.sgls.nu
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Falk, age 2 playing (with) the guitar. |
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Falk, age 2 playing (with) the guitar. |
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Falk, age 5 playing mandoline. |
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